Fusion Ups Stewart To EIC

Fusion has hired Dodai Stewart as editor in chief to help integrate former Gawker Media sties.

Univision’s Millennial-focused brand Fusion has promoted Dodai Stewart, a former editor at Gawker Media's Jezebel who joined Fusion in 2014, to editor in chief.

She will help integrate the former Gawker Media sites, which Univision bought in a bankruptcy auction for $135 million, into the company.

“[Stewart] comes to the role with a wealth of knowledge and understanding about Fusion, our staff and mission, as well as deeper relations with our cousins at the Gizmodo Media Group,” Fusion president and Chief Content Officer Daniel Eilemberg wrote in a memo to staffers Monday.

Stewart will also be responsible for “helping to strengthen communication among our East Coast and West Coast bureaus, as well with others within the Fusion Media Group.”

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Stewart, who was previously executive editor at Fusion, is the brand’s third editor in chief in less than three years.

Jane Spencer was named editor in chief in 2014, but was replaced a year later by The Atlantic deputy editor Alexis Madrigal. Madrigal is now being moved to the position of editor at large, where he will write pieces “on the intersection of society and technology,” according to Eilemberg.

Madrigal will also continue to executive produce his “Real Future” show for Fusion’s TV network and the Real Future Fair event in the Bay Area. He is also coming out with a “podcast about the Port of Oakland, global shipping and the future of work.”

Last month, Univision hired News Corp.’s senior vice president of strategy Raju Narisetti to become the new CEO of Gizmodo Group. He oversees Jezebel, Gizmodo, Kalopnick, Deadspin, Lifehacker and Kotaku. Gizmodo Group is the rebranded group of Gawker Media, which  no longer includes Gawker.
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